Useful References

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 August 1910, Page 1

Useful References

FOR TRAVELLERS AND STAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trains from Levin connect with them. There are frequent trips to_ ports further south, such as Dunedin nnd Tho Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may get to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, after having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier nnd Gisborne. The .inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bluff they steam up to Molbourn'o and latter on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the sender of a letter addressed to a place abroad to prepay the postage on >a reply, the Department issues reply coupons on payment of a fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for « postage stamp of the value of 2id in any country which adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependencies, is now well orer ona million. Tn June. 1908. tho estimated ponulation of London was 4,705.757. The rateable value of property ir> England and Wales has risen eiaoh vear since 1874. The figures arcns follows:— In 1874, £115.016.031. Tn 1888. ,C 115.527.944. - Tn 1894. €161.139.575. Tll 1908, £212, 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents a.ll average of £4 17s 6d per bead of population, while in 1908 the average was £6 per head. People are puzzled to know what <s meant bv occasional references, in discussions on naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for tb» laving down in each venr from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and ono armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 tn 1917 rif oil" hatHeqliip .n't' 1 •vio ?vmnnvnrl ornißnv • nlcn Jn on^l venr from 1908 te 1917 of two pro feeted orniseri and ono destrnvor. Now Z'vilnnd's public debt at 31 <;+ March. 1910. amounted to £70.938534. the increase for tho twelve months immedia+elv preceding having been £4.481 637. Of this amount. £1,200.000 was raised by way of pnblic works. £1.0-18,800 under th'o Advances to Settlers and Workers Act, and £1 000.000 nn r Vr the Wellington and Mnn.awatu Railwav Purehn<;a AoK 0950.000 was raised under CNa to Local Bodies Aelt, nnd £211.495 under the Land for Settlemonta Act. Groat Britain's National Debt,, on 31st March. 1900. stood at £751.121309, being a decrease of £5,704.742 bv comparison wi+h the firrures for tihe vear immerTliatelv preceding. Against this were set down assets totalling £37.160,000. the principal item being the estimated market value of the Suez Canal shares ownf>d by Great Britain (£32.000.000).

AGE OF HORSES AS SHOWN HY THETR TEETH. A fonil of six' months has r* grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front t-eeth, with a cavity in each. At the ago of one year, ho loses tbn first milk grinders above and below, mnd front teeth have their cavities filled up alike to teeth of horses of eight years of ace. At a<?e of two >arid a half to three years, he casts his two front unpers, and in a short time after the two next. At age of four years, grinders are six upon each side, and a.t about four and a-lialf his nippers are all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two cornor teeth : tushes then appear, and he is no longer a colt A/t five a horse has tushes, and there is a black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower nippers. At six this black cavity is obliterate/! in the two front lower nipoers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled up and tushes blunted ; a,ml at eight, the cavities of the Hvo corner teeth aro filled ur>. Hovs'e miv now be said to be a fed. Cavities in nippers of npner l'aw are not, obliterated until the horce is inhont ten years 'old, after which tushes become round, and ninners project n,nd chango their surfaco. TO ASCERTAIN 1 THE WEIGHT OF CATTLE. Take tho measurement of tho girth wher*» it is smallest (close behind th« shoulder) and the length of the nnimal frosa the front of t,h« shoulder to tb« function of tho tail. Multiply thhe snnare of fhn girth in feet and inches hV the length in feet, ami multiply the product by .23, .24, .26. .28, or .30, according to the fatness of the animal, and the result will give the weight in imperial stones. For instance, if tho firth of au animal in moderate conditioin be 6ft, the length Rftr 4in. then 6 x 6—36 x n 1-3—192 x .24—47.08 stones. Tho foregoing is t.h* carcase weight of the animal. Th« weight of the carcase would be about £of the hVo weight for cattle: for sheen, from 1-3 to 4: and for a pig, from \ to | the live weight. —cwg—